Author archives: Enrique Royuela

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PhD Researcher in Molecular Biology of Viruses at National Center for Microbiology (Madrid, Spain). Co-founder of the Scientific Network "Feelsynapsis" Founder and Editor in Chief of "Journal of Feelsynapsis"

Flu: the H and the N

Flu: the H and the N

BiomedicineMolecular biology

By Enrique Royuela

The organism that causes flu is the influenza virus. It belongs to the family Orthomyxoviridae and they are included in Group V of the Baltimore classification, consisting in negative sense, single-stranded RNA viruses. Within this family there are three genres that are responsible for the flu: Influenza A virus, Influenza B virus and Influenza C […]

Towards a vaccine against HIV

Towards a vaccine against HIV

Science

By Enrique Royuela

In 1981 the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the United States reported the existence of anunexplained pneumonia and Kaposi’s sarcoma by Pneumocystis jiroveci in previously healthy homosexual men from Los Angeles and New York. This represented the first time that the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was identified. Subsequently, cases of AIDS increased […]

A mediator for horizontal gene transfer between eukaryotes and prokaryotes

A mediator for horizontal gene transfer between eukaryotes and prokaryotes

BiologyGeneticsMicrobiology

By Enrique Royuela

In biology few issues are as basic as the division and classification of living things. Despite the differences shown by taxa that occupy each of the categories, all living things have a common ancestor and characteristics that unite them. Since Linnaeus (in 1735) to the newest division created by Cavalier-Smith (in the late twentieth century) […]